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GREETINGS FROM GLASTONBURY - AN APPRECIATION
May I crave space in the next Bulletin to record my
appreciation of the Essex Field Club?
I have been thumbing through my diaries and E.F.C.
Programme cards and along with records I have kept I
have been able to analyse just how much benefit I have
received through being a member.
Up to the time of moving to Glastonbury the Programme
Cards list about 272 functions and I have attended
146 of these - about 54%. If you deduct the 30 odd
meetings I could not have attended anyway during two
long bouts of sickness - nearly six months 1976/1977
with a shoulder injury and three months in 1980 with
an abdominal operation, the percentage rises to nearly
60%. Whatever else these figures may indicate let
them be recorded as a measure of my appreciation of
the dedicated work of the Officers and Council of the
Club and a whole host of the many friends I have made
throughout my membership. My thanks to them all for
their companionship and for sharing their knowledge
with me and for so patiently trying to answer my many
questions on so many subjects.
My wife and I moved to Glastonbury just over a year
ago and we are very happy here. It is an historic
place and a tourist's Mecca. I have already met
three former colleagues from my London office and in
June I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Tildesley and
his family holidaying in the West Country before
returning to his duties at the Passmore Edwards Museum -
our official headquarters. It was nice meeting them
and if any member of The Essex Field Club should emulate
their example I do hope they will note my address and
call in. The house is 80 yards S.E. of The Rural
Life Museum which is situated on the A 361 at the
junction of Bere Lane and Chilkwell Street. I am
sure the Tildesleys would recommend a visit to the
Town.